If Gandhi was Bapu, the ?father? of a society in which he tried to inject equality while maintaining the ?Hindu? framework, Ambedkar was Baba to his people and the great liberator from that framework.? Born in 1891 into an ?untouchable? family, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was witness to all the decisive phases of India’s freedom movement. While the well-known elite nationalists like Gandhi and Nehru led the struggle for political freedom from British colonial rule, Ambedkar fought a correlated but different struggle, one for the liberation of the most oppressed sections of Indian society.